IFPRI- CSISA organized a one day high level policy roundtable on Sustainable Intensification in India’s Risk-Prone Ecologies: Investment strategies for productivity growth, resource conservation, and climate risk management” on May 19, 2014 in New Delhi. This roundtable, brings together a high-level small group of individuals from the corporate, government, and research sectors to address one of India’s most urgent challenges to food security and economic growth—how to encourage private sector investment in accelerating productivity growth in India’s risk-prone ecologies while simultaneously conserving the environment. There are solutions already in farmers’ fields and rural markets that respond to these challenges, and this Roundtable will highlight recent advances, for example: innovative financial products and information services for small-scale farmers; diagnostic tools for managing water and soil nutrient scarcity; custom-hired resource-conserving machinery for small farms; crop diversification and high-value marketing strategies; and stress-resistant wheat and rice varieties. But the search for solutions is far from complete. This Roundtable is meant to engage participants in a rapid-fire discussion of recent technical solutions in Indian agriculture, the prospects for policy change, and corporate outlooks for the next five years. The purpose is to help public and private sector players to identify common investment strategies, forge partnerships, and chalk out collaborative efforts to effect technological, market, and policy improvements in India’s risk prone ecologies.

1. Intensification of Investment
in Climate Risk Management
Prof. David M. Dror
Chairman and Managing Director
Micro Insurance Academy/1

3. Climate Cost of Cultivation (CCC)
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Rainfall
Min Temp
Rel Humidity
Wind Speed
Solar Radiation
Max Temp
Daily Soil
Water Balance
Modelling
Crop Water
Requirement
Modelling
Max Temp -
Crop Yield
Loss Factor
Analysis
Irrigation
Requirement
Drainage
Requirement
Irrigation
Cost (A)
Drainage
Cost (B)
Groundwater
(Pumping
Pipe Depth)
Topography
(Waterlogged
Areas)
Soil
Properties
Max Temp
Yield Loss
(C)
Climate Cost of
Cultivation
(A+B+C-D)
CO2
Increasing
CO2 - Crop
Yield Gain
Factor
Analysis
Increasing
CO2 Yield
Gain (D)
Climatic
Inputs
Bio-Physical
Inputs
CCC a method to quantify climate change impacts on crops considering
both climatic and biophysical parameters.

4. Climate Cost of Cultivation (CCC) Findings
for Maize & Wheat in Vaishali District, Bihar
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5. CCC led Agriculture Risk Profiles for Maize
& Wheat in Vaishali District, Bihar
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Spatially, agriculture risk profiles for both maize and wheat crop were found
similar for both of the considered time periods.

6. Application of CCC
• Indicator for customized crop insurance
schemes
• Indicator for localized climate change
agriculture adaptation management
practices
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7. Overcomes Social Challenges

9. Opportunities for Synergies
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• MIA has developed the “Climate Cost of Cultivation (CCC)” index for
quantifying climate variability impacts on crops. CCC index was
developed for Wheat and Maize in Bihar; however it can be adapted for
any other cereal crops in any location.
• The CCC index is also a tool to classify areas into low/medium/high risk
classes. Such classification is instrumental for adapting agri solutions to
risk profiles.
May 19th 2014
Piloting CCC index in Wheat & Maize in Indo-Gangetic Plains
Piloting livestock index insurance
• MIA has identified the need to develop a similar index covering all of the
required essential parameters for milk yield and livestock.
• MIA is keen to team up with partners to develop that index.